Welcome to the 2SER New Music Report – featuring all the new music on your 2SER airwaves this week across your Breakfast, The Daily and Drive programs!

ALBUMS:

Buscabulla – Se Amaba Así (OS)
Egoism – And Go Nowhere (L)
FaltyDL – Neurotica (OS)
Guy Blackman – Out of Sight (AU)
Lifeguard – Ripped and Torn (OS)
Little Simz – Lotus (OS)
WITCH – Sogolo (OS)
V/A – Ritmo Italiano: “Unspoken Sounds of Italian Tamburo”

SINGLES:

Bleak Squad – Lost my head (AU)
Modern Nature – Pharaoh (OS)
Peach Melba – I fell in love with God (she was really fit) (OS)
Placement – Insect (AU)
The Circling Sun – Mizu (NZ)
Winter McQuinn – Walkin through that door (feat Feign Jima) (AU)

The second solo album from Chapter Music head Guy Blackman has just dropped this week, Out of Sight is a beauty: gorgeously recorded, intimate acoustic pop laced with incisive and sincere observation on the human condition told with sharp humour from a queer lens. This will also be the final new release put out on the legendary Melbourne imprint. It’s a fitting signoff (of sorts) for a label which has in it’s thirty three years has  championed a huge array of cutting edge musicians: Laura Jean, No Zu, Dick Diver, Twerps and many more. 2SER salutes both Blackman’s artistry, but also his longserving dedication to Australian music through Chapter Music. Chapter will be turning to reissuing obscurities from it’s vast back-catalogue, however, so we’re looking forward to what is still to come.

Little Simz has recently returned with her sixth studio album, Lotus. This represents a comparitive shift back more introspective and soulful sounds from the prolific London-based rapper, walking the line between jazz-infused RnB, reggae and hip hop. There are still plenty of trademark hard-hitting verses throughout, but this really shines through it’s various collaborative moments which include guest features from Nigerian vocalist Obonjayar, as well as drummer Yussuf Dayes, Swedish vocalist Yukimi (of Little Dragon), Moses Sumney, Michael Kiwunaka and many more.

Finally, fresh out of Lukasa, Zambia comes Sogolo the ninth studio record from W.I.T.C.H, the Zamrock legends who have been lead by Emmanuel ‘Jagari’ Chanda since forming in the late 1970s. And it’s a record with roots both in the groups history as well as an eye firmly on the unexplored. Sogolo (meaning “future”) was recorded in the Lusaka studio that were their original base in during the 70s, and is an album that constantly shifts and defies expectation, incorporating politically conscious hi-life, freaked out jazz, unconventional dub/reggae, analogue electronics and crazed acid rock, often with elements of all of these in the one track. It’s a monster, and out now on Partisan Records.